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VLC media player (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats ([[MPEG]], [[DivX]], [[Ogg]], and ''many'' more) as well as [[DVD]]s, [[VCD]]s, and various [[stream]]ing protocols. However in recent years it has also become a extremely powerful server to stream live and on demand video in several formats to our network and the Internet.

It started as a student project at the French [http://www.ecp.fr/index_html_en École Centrale, Paris] but is now a worldwide project with developers from 20 countries. ([[History|more]]).

VLC is built in a modular way. This means that you can choose from a range of different [[modules]] to decide how to [[Interface|control]] VLC and how to display the [[video output]].


== Related Links ==
* [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ VLC Home page]
* [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html VLC features]
* [[Main Page|VideoLAN Wiki Home]]